Philosophy & Spanish with a year abroad

Courses are divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

In your first year you are required to take 60 credits in Philosophy and 60 credits in Spanish.

Philosophy

You are required to take one 15 credit module from each of the following groups plus one further module from any of the groups:

• Greek Philosophy I (15 credits)
• Modern Philosophy I (15 credits)

• Ethics I (15 credits)
• Political Philosophy I (15 credits)

• Elementary Logic (15 credits)
• Metaphysics I (15 credits)
• Epistemology I (15 credits)
• Methodology (15 credits)

Spanish

In your first year, there are no optional units. You are required to take:

• Core Spanish Language (30 credits)
• Compulsory Global Iberias Module (30 credits)

In your second year you are required to take 60 credits in Philosophy and 60 credits in Spanish.

Philosophy

In your second year, you are required to choose three level 5 modules (15 credits each) from at least two of the following groups, each of which may typically include the following modules:

• Greek Philosophy II: Plato (15 credits)
• Greek Philosophy II: Aristotle (15 credits)
• Modern Philosophy II: Locke & Berkeley (15 credits)
• Modern Philosophy II: Spinoza & Leibniz (15 credits)

• Ethics II: History of Ethical Philosophy (15 credits)
• Ethics II: Contemporary Ethical Philosophy (15 credits)
• Political Philosophy II: Theories of Freedom OR Justice (15 credits) (running in alternate years)
• Political Philosophy II: History of Political Philosophy (15 credits)

• Epistemology II (15 credits)
• Metaphysics II (15 credits)
• Philosophy of Logic & Language (15 credits)
• Philosophy of Mind (15 credits)
• Intermediate Logic (15 credits)
• Philosophy of Physics I: Philosophy of Space & Time (15 credits)

You will take a further 15 credits from any of the optional modules in the groups listed above, or from among the wide range of level 6 optional modules, which may include topics such as: Hellinistic Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, Gender and Philosophy, Logic and the Philosophy of Mathematics.

Spanish

You are required to take to take the following module:

• Core Spanish Language (30 credits)

Philosophy

There are no optional Philosophy modules in Year Two.

Spanish

You are also required to take two further 15 credit modules from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

• Catalan Language (15 credits)
• The Study of Gender in Spanish American Literature and Culture (15 credits)
• Memory in Modern Spanish Culture (15 credits)
• Fatherlands: Spain & Portugal under the Dictators (15 credits)
• Visuality, Literature & Modern Life in Latin America (15 credits)
• Language Acts and Worldmaking in Medieval & Early Modern Spain (15 credits)

3rd Year

You will spend your third year studying or working abroad in a Spanish speaking country. You can choose to study at one of our partner universities, and you will also have the opportunity to apply for the English Language Assistantship Programme or to undertake an internship or work placement in a Spanish-speaking environment.

Our partner universities include universities in Spain and Latin America, which currently include:

• Universitat de Alicante
• Universidad de Cadiz
• Universidad Carlos III (Madrid)
• Universidad de Córdoba
• Universidad del País Vasco
• Universitat Pompeu Fabra
• Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile (PUC)
• Tecnologico de Monterrey Tec (Querétaro, Mexico)
• Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Lugo Campus)
• Universidad Nacional de Mexico UNAM (Mexico)
• Universidad del Pacifico (Peru)
• Universidad de Salamanca
• Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador)

There are no required modules for Philosophy and Spanish in Year Three.

There are no optional modules for Philosophy and Spanish in Year Three.

4th Year

In your fourth year you are required to take 60 credits in Philosophy and 60 credits in Spanish.

Philosophy

There are no required Philosophy modules in Year Four.

Spanish

You are required to take to take the following module:

• Core Spanish Language (30 credits)

Philosophy

Final year students take 60 credits of philosophy modules, at least 45 of which must be at level 6. The range of optional level 6 modules may typically include:

• Dissertation (30 credits)
• Jurisprudence (30 credits)
• Law and Social Theory (30 credits)
• Plato's myths: the soul, desire and the beyond (30 credits)
• Hellenistic Philosophy (15 credits)
• Indian Philosophy: The Orthodox Schools (15 credits)
• Philosophy of Mathematics (15 credits)
• Medieval Philosophy (15 credits)
• Philosophy of Psychology (15 credits)
• First-Order Logic (15 credits)
• Aesthetics (15 credits)
• Gender & Philosophy (15 credits)
• Topics in Modern Philosophy (15 credits)
• Topics in Political Philosophy (15 credits)

Spanish

You are also required to take two further 15 credit modules from a range of options in Spanish and Latin American studies, which may typically include:

• Images of Spain: Stereotypes in Spanish
• Cinema (15 credits)
• Advanced Topics in Applied Linguistics (15 credits)
• Key Terms and Points of View in Latin American Visual Arts (15 credits)
• Writing Women in Pre-modern Spain (15 credits)
• Advanced Catalan Language (15 credits)
• Myth and Archive (15 credits)
• Journey through Spain: Travel Writing in Modern Spain (15 credits)
• The Writer and the Public: Journalism in Spain, Past and Present (15 credits)
• Cross-Cultural Exchanges between Africa and the Americas (15 credits)
• Comparing Romance Languages: Historical Evolution and Linguistic Interference (15 credits)
• Catalan Culture (15 credits)

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-todate, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change.